THE TURF

Evening Star, Issue 18252, 17 April 1923, Page 9

THE TU RF

Gossip by Old Identity. Eleven horses paid up for the Tim am Cup, to bo run on Friday of this week at the popular distance of a mile and a quarter. Dunedin owns three of the eleven —Loughrea 8.9, Angelo 8.1, and Twinkle 6.10. Besides these wo have Palamon, Mirza, Lomagundi, and Orange Bitters in the Hurdles; -Adjutoc and Linhopo in tlio Gladstone Welter; Mantua in the Smithficld Handicap; Palencia and Fabianns in the Steeplechase; Bonnie Olivo, Rigs o’ Barley, Courtly Rose, and Full Swing in tho Electric Stakes; Markby in the Kosewill Handicap; Twinkle and Ineursio in the Doncaster Wetter. Dunedin backers who like to stick to their own horses have therefore a wide optiofl, and wo shall he unlucky if wo do not got into some of the money. Mantua has won eighteen of the eightyone races in which she has started.

Murray Hobbs, the well-known ownertrainer, was at the A.J.O. Meeting on Ids way back from a visit to the Old Country, and bought at the Randwick yearling sales.

It was a sct-back’for many investors in doubles to find that Royal Blood was started for the Thompson Handicap in Wellington instead of the Railway Handicap. With half a mile gone Royal Blood joined Quest in the lead, and this pair led into the. straight, but there got smothered. Quest fought into third placo, but Royal Blood failed badly, and after this and the Auckland defeat he will pass out of favor. Roseday was in a handy position up to the homo' turn in the Thompson Handicap, but there ran wide,, and he was not near it at the finish.

Highland, winner of the Thompson Handicap, started fourteenth in the order of betting. He is a three-yea,r-old by Finland from War Scare, by Martian from Gossip (dam of Bobrikoff). His previous successes this season wero in tiro Wanganui Guineas and the King Edward Memorial at Auckland.

It was a good field that contested the North Island Challenge Stakes at Trentliam, writes “Sir Lancelot-.” Thespian, who had shown a return to his best form at Auckland and Avondale, was a good favorite. He was last to begin, but ran up to Alabama, who acted as pacemaker for about five furlongs, entering the straight, and won attractively from the two-year-olds Queen March and Gay Juliet.-. Alabama did best of the others. Viewpoint shaped disappointingly, finishing well back with LisCbwcl. In the Autumn Handicap, on the second day at Wellington, Silver Peak fired away her chance by beginning very slowly, and Roseday faded out before the real business began.

The ‘Press’ special says of the Trenthom Gold' Cup: As is usual in. weight-for-agei races over a distance, the pace was not, solid Rapine and Sunart led at a good f a ’c-quarler pace, the first six furlongs .1 ng run in Imin 21sec, and (ho mile in Imin 52sec, all being under a strong pull. The speed' was not increased ■running up tire back, and the mile and a hall was covered in 2min 40seo. From then on Rapine went on, and with a better pace on he ran home an easy winner, a length ahead of Ivick Oil, with trio rest easing up behind them, ~l'hc rr.ee looked a certainty for Rapine, and run as it was at a steady pace, it was right into his hands and against Kick Oil and Scion l , who had only got stayers’ chances and had no chance of beating a decent three-year-old the way the race was- run. Vagabond looked and ran well enough to suggest that ho will be hard to beat in some of the big hurdle races later on. Kir W.A. Niicholls has disposed of the three-year-old Many Kittle, and the WinIde gelding earned the colors of hip trainer (R. W. King) when ho ran in the St. Loger at Trcntham,

Queen March has won £4,635 in stakes this season. This is the largest _ amount ever credited to a two-year-old: _in Kew Zealand, the previous record being Mermin’fi £4,570. In the Avondale Handicap, writes “ Phaeton,” Surveyor made a further addition to his stake-earning record since ho passed into the hands of Mr John Paterson twelve months back for the moderate sum of lOOga During the time Surveyor has been carrying Mr Paterson’s colors he lias won £1,185 in stakes, so that ho has proved a good bargain to the Auckland sportsman.

Doira-n, who won the Great Eastern Steeplechase at Onkaparinga (South Australia) on Easter (Monday, won in 1918 with 10.6, and again the following year with 11.4. He was not a starter in the races of 1920 and 1921, but last year he was again to the fore with 12.4 in the saddlfe. This year, despite having top weight with 12.7, lie was a good favorita Doiran is a. bay gelding- by .Sojourner from Hibernian.

E. R. Brown, of Ravenna, Ohio, United States of America, has a family history that few can equal in unique features, and it is doubtful if any can surpass. During the fifty years of his married life the stork has paid eight visits to his house, leaving twins, a boy and a girl, each time. The first of his sons followed the father’s example?, and was the father of six pairs of twins. Brown was a half-breed Indian, and his wife was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian. At the Chicago World’s Fair the family had a reunion. The twins were all weighed together. They weighed over two tons, while the biggest alone weighed 3501 b.